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Bold - this choice of silica gel packaging gets right to the point. |
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A stunning example of classic continental silica gel. Note the movement away from 90 degree angles demonstrative of the revolt against rigid orthodoxy in the silica gel packaging design fraternity. |
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Gently perforated - you can almost smell the little pebbles through your screen. |
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Repetitive but highly functional text. |
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Bilingual - having lived in Japan for several years a considerable portion of this collection includes Japanese labelling. Unsurprisingly the characters have basically the same instructions as most English silica gel instructions. |
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Rugged - note the threads reinforcing and enhancing the structural integrity of this item. |
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Sparkly |
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Precarious |
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Nuggets |
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Chunky |
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Another example incorporating thread for added strength. |
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Like gossamer she floats...marvellous lightness to this little beauty. |
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Dangerous. It's difficult to overestimate the danger posed by silica gel. They frequently masqurade as little packages of sugar. |
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Looks so innocent. There's Korean and Japanese here contributing to a trilingual instructional assault, |
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Noncrystalline |
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Saliva |
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Word order comparison |
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Elegant |
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Commercial |
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Delicate with little red nuggets of desiccation. How do they get the colour in the gel? |
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Corporate |
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Subtle |
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Trilingual |
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Plain vanilla |
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Flimsy |
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Hexagonal |
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Teutonic |
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Long John Silver |
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Don't eat. |
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UFO absorber. |
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Reinforced - note that this one is not packed by NOC |
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Yamanote |
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Exclamatory! |
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This one came from a bottle of HIV antiretroviral medication. |
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Babyface |
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Big sucker |
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Bleeding |
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Marvellous - gel in a can. |
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I received this one from a nurse named Cathleen. Thanks, sister. |
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Opus dei? |
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The previous owner of this package must have taken the directions literally. It had been discarded in the street. |
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Frayed |
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Like a jellyfish. |
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Pale and sickly |
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Pink lady |
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P-P-P-Puffy. |
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Like a lacy little neglige. |
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Pyramidal |
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I love the Dutch. They're so...progressive. |
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This one was keeping the urine dipsticks at work dry. This is very functional stuff! |
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Haute couture |
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Blue and angular |
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The jewel in the crown of my collection. |
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Phone home.
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No coma?
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The fabled "blue" Agless period of branding.
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Chunky
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Caustic
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Rosetta of our times.
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It rubs the lotion on its skin...s
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Leave your hat on
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avoid contact with water
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tasteless
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keep away from children
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matrix
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do not make wet
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don't eat
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bust the o
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do not microwave
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ageless
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vitalon
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shiny shiny
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right down behind me
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discard without opening
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pictographic
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patent number 1571385
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ageless is popular but it's not silica gel
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keplon double whammy
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golden |
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Beauty
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The best kept secret. |
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Big'un
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Ideograms |
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This horde was under the lid of my Berocca
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Freshness incarnate |
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Environmentally friendly - now that's what I like in a dessicant
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blargh - i is ded |
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Ever fresh
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Greenwash |
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Flat Stanley
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Eating all the oxygen. |
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Keplon - sounds like a planet?
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Busting the O |
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Ironically I stole this sample from a safe at my local hardware store
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From my multivitamins. |
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Do you share my appreciation of this scinitllating substance? Heaps cooler than collecting stamps and almost as fun-ctional as making beer. Contact me on threeeights@hotmail.com |
Your silica gel package here... |
